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In addition to above i’d like to say that this aint a P2win game. I completed the game without paying a single penny, it just makes the game more challenging.

Definitely not pay to win. I played it on Armor Games a year ago and it was grindy and frustrating, but you could beat it without the pouch. Currently on Kongregate I am at level 145 and feeling bored. Not much challenge, just roll out the winning strategy and win.

>_> stop telling people that they have to use macro programs, you’re making the game sound like it’s a grindfest when it really isn’t.

If you find yourself low on shadow cores early or mid game, its because you’re wasting them on silly things like buying skill points, upgrading useless fragments, boosting fragment rarity, or putting a few traits in every level. Don’t do any of those things, they don’t really help much for their cost.

Early to mid game, shadow cores should only be used for setting ALL traits (except maybe hatred, that’s for much later) to the max on a level to reap massive amounts of XP. Nothing else is worth it (except maybe a super cheap white fragment with a good bonus that costs like ~7 cores to fully upgrade.)

I should have played this version of the game before making that recommendation. The game is much easier now than it was when I first played it. It really did use to be a grindfest. Not so much any more.

Way back in the day when this game first came out I used autohotkey to run F1 overnight. Haven’t tried it here on Kongregate to see if that still works, but a couple nights of that and the game is stupid easy. Full talismans and a ton of shadow cores.

This is killing me. Maxed commons and most uncommons. The first battle is fine, but the second one (gets double allies when bought from bank) is just a matter of luck, and the third one (lose two resources per turn) isn’t even close.

I’ve tried combo decks to get bounty kill as fast as possible, various forms of infinite decks, straight up war decks.

Play out your hand until you run out of cards in the bank, and then kill your opponent. Not much thinking involved. The Shepherd spot has gone back and forth between Herd of Boars, Herd of Aurochs, Goat Outrider, Repopulate and Shepherd. Repopulate gets you back in the game quicker after a board wipe.

Vespitole only has an advantage if you are playing against a human. The computer doesn’t chain cards smartly enough to take full advantage of the card draw available to it.

So that we can’t just put a weight on a summon button and walk away. I wouldn’t mind if there was anything of interest in the actual gameplay, but the gameplay is just a hoop to jump through on the way to developing your character. (just like all of the other epic war games, but at least on those we didn’t have to pay attention during the fights)

Reached the end of normal, and got completely rolled by Bahamut. He is a little bit stronger than the opponents you face before him in normal.

Any suggestions on what I should be looking for with the gold I am farming (11,000 as of now)? I was planning to save up for Uunys and go from there. Is there something else that will give me a greater chance of defeating Bahamut?

No. I was responding to the delusional person quoted in the OP. He dares to imply that if you don’t have a loan, you can easily take care of a kid with only one of two parents working. That’s blatantly false.

But that isn’t what he implies. What he clearly states is that if you have $100,000 in student loan debt you can’t afford to have a parent stay home with the kids. He doesn’t imply that you can easily take care of a kid with only one parent working if you don’t have debt.

I’ve got to tell you that I’m about to blow a gasket. I’m about to go into orbit. I’ve taken so many calls like this. Where are the parents here? If your kids are that stupid, jack them up! Seriously—$130,000 to get a degree from Columbia in divinity to get a $40,000 job as a minister. Spending $130,000 to get an undergraduate degree in psychology—that’s crazy!! So when you have babies, you go home to be a stay-at-home mom.

I love stay-at-home moms. But you know the number one reason I’m finding out now that people can’t stay home with their kids? It’s their freaking student loan stupidity! I’m not mad at this particular lady that just called. This concept is driving me bananas!

This is what’s going on! You’ve lost your ever-loving minds, America. You are stupid about education—how paradoxical is that? You wander in, spend any amount to get a degree and act like the student loan tooth fairy is going to come in and pick up your stuff. There is no student loan tooth fairy! You have to think.

Your stupid degree in a stupid field does not have a marketplace value and it doesn’t guarantee that you’re going to get a job! As a matter of fact, it’s an indicator that you’re too stupid to hire! Do not allow your 18-year-old to go $200,000 in debt so they can get a good Christian education in underwater basket weaving. That’s stupid! Stop it!

Given that we have an Off-Topic sub forum for exactly the stupid things (oh, is my bias showing?) that are getting locked in SD, then I don’t have any problem with the number of threads being locked. Eventually everyone will come to an understanding of what is appropriate here and we can have serious discussions instead of flipping through pages of silliness and giving up on SD for weeks at a time.

It’s impossible to give a statement on what instrument is the hardest because hardness is subjective.

I disagree. Hardness can be subjective, but many aspects of it are objective.

Compare the clarinet and the saxophone. One has open tone holes, one has closed tone holes. open tone holes are objectively harder to deal with. One has an octave key, one has a register key and “THEBREAK”. Again, one of those is objectively more difficult to deal with. Or trumpet/baritone/tuba vs. trombone. The first groups use pistons which discretely determine which set of notes is possible, while the trombone uses a continuous slide in which any note or fraction of a note is possible. One of those is objectively harder.

The subjectivity comes into play when comparing instruments that have different characteristics. How do you compare the difficulty of the clarinet to the difficulty of the trombone? That is where it becomes somewhat subjective. Someone with missing fingers can’t play the clarinet, but the trombone is still a viable option. Someone with an inability to distinguish pitches can’t successfully play the trombone, but could make music on the clarinet.

I’ll just comment on the standard instruments, there are things like the theremin and some multi-percussion set ups that are incredibly difficult to learn to play, but they aren’t really used for anything outside of showing off.

Woodwind- Bassoon, all of the challenges of a double, with the added bonus that the fingering doesn’t make any logical sense.

Brass- French Horn, the partials being so close together and the insane range put this one just ahead of the trombone.

String- String Bass, all of the same challenges of the violin, with added issues of finger strength and spacing. Fortunately the string bass isn’t often asked to play the same level of music as the violin, so in practice it isn’t as hard, but that is a function of the music not the instrument.

Keyboard- Organ, hands on multiple manuals (keyboards) and stops (engage different ranks of pipes, or their electronic simulations) and pistons (engages preset selections of ranks of pipes), feet on the pedalboard (another keyboard for the feet) and expression/enclosure pedals (change volume/volume of sets of ranks of pipes).

Percussion- Ignoring one-off multi-percussion set ups, probably drumset, but you could make a good case for tympani as well. Drumset has more to pay attention to, tympani has the challenge of tuning (and changing tuning on the fly).

Of all of those, I would say the organ is hardest, but that could just be because it is the one that I have the hardest time with.

“You’re Always in Survival Mode”
This is the thing that makes everything else so hard to deal with. It is almost as much the emotional and mental drain as the physical burdens. When you are in that position it can be hard not to throw away a weekend, and a paycheck, and sometimes a job, just to take a break and remember why life is worth living. Unfortunately, that puts you even farther from getting out of the suck.

“Your Next Expensive Disaster is Always Around the Corner”

You find yourself thinking, “Man, we could get caught up if this bad [stuff] wouldn’t keep happening!” Then it finally hits you that bad [stuff] happens like clockwork. Not because God hates you, but because you’re poor and you’re using cheap [stuff] that breaks. Maybe you don’t pay the $150 for a plumber, but have a handy friend fix it for you for $50. Awesome, you saved $100! Then six months later you have a leak again, because it turns out he fixed it with rubber bands and Fruit Roll-ups.
Everything in a poor person’s life is a cash vampire. My truck has 170,000 miles on it and the MPG is so bad that every time I start it, the ghost of an Indian appears in the passenger seat and cries. About twice a year, something under the hood grinds to a halt or melts — always another $500 on a tow and repairs. And that was the money I was saving to get a more reliable car.
[], even my own body does it to me. I lost my last job because of chronic back pain, losing my health insurance in the process. Which means I can’t treat my chronic back pain. Can’t afford to get dentist check-ups, so more expensive problems are allowed to grow and fester. And so on.

AMEN! You have to have an emergency fund. The hard part is that if you actually are poor this is incredibly difficult to do. Having $1000 in the bank that doesn’t get touched except for emergencies makes life so much smoother. Having $100 in cash to get you through minor emergencies is also worth way more than the $100.

“No Credit Can be Just as Damaging as Bad Credit”
I guess this has changed since I was young enough to have to worry about it. I never had any trouble finding an apartment are getting utilities turned on when I had no credit history.

“There is an Industry That Profits by Keeping You Poor”
Avoid payday loans/check cashing services, please.

“You Get Charged for Using Your Own Money”
Keep track of your money, don’t spend money you don’t have. Fortunately there is regulation being enacted that should limit some of the worst abuses here, but you have to keep track of your money, if you leave it up to the bank, you will pay dearly for it.

One thing that the author mentioned in passing that is a huge part of his problem, and is a huge problem for so many people, is a child and an ex. Don’t have kids unless you are married. End of story. 90% of the time, stay married. Solves so many problems.

“You’re Always in Survival Mode”
This is the thing that makes everything else so hard to deal with. It is almost as much the emotional and mental drain as the physical burdens. When you are in that position it can be hard not to throw away a weekend, and a paycheck, and sometimes a job, just to take a break and remember why life is worth living. Unfortunately, that puts you even farther from getting out of the suck.

“Your Next Expensive Disaster is Always Around the Corner”

You find yourself thinking, “Man, we could get caught up if this bad [stuff] wouldn’t keep happening!” Then it finally hits you that bad [stuff] happens like clockwork. Not because God hates you, but because you’re poor and you’re using cheap [stuff] that breaks. Maybe you don’t pay the $150 for a plumber, but have a handy friend fix it for you for $50. Awesome, you saved $100! Then six months later you have a leak again, because it turns out he fixed it with rubber bands and Fruit Roll-ups.
Everything in a poor person’s life is a cash vampire. My truck has 170,000 miles on it and the MPG is so bad that every time I start it, the ghost of an Indian appears in the passenger seat and cries. About twice a year, something under the hood grinds to a halt or melts — always another $500 on a tow and repairs. And that was the money I was saving to get a more reliable car.
[], even my own body does it to me. I lost my last job because of chronic back pain, losing my health insurance in the process. Which means I can’t treat my chronic back pain. Can’t afford to get dentist check-ups, so more expensive problems are allowed to grow and fester. And so on.

AMEN! You have to have an emergency fund. The hard part is that if you actually are poor this is incredibly difficult to do. Having $1000 in the bank that doesn’t get touched except for emergencies makes life so much smoother. Having $100 in cash to get you through minor emergencies is also worth way more than the $100.

“No Credit Can be Just as Damaging as Bad Credit”
I guess this has changed since I was young enough to have to worry about it. I never had any trouble finding an apartment are getting utilities turned on when I had no credit history.

“There is an Industry That Profits by Keeping You Poor”
Avoid payday loans/check cashing services, please.

“You Get Charged for Using Your Own Money”
Keep track of your money, don’t spend money you don’t have. Fortunately there is regulation being enacted that should limit some of the worst abuses here, but you have to keep track of your money, if you leave it up to the bank, you will pay dearly for it.

One thing that the author mentioned in passing that is a huge part of his problem, and is a huge problem for so many people, is a child and an ex. Don’t have kids unless you are married. End of story. 90% of the time, stay married. Solves so many problems.

Let’s see, they’ve been living over half their lives with an undefined fear, the images of 911 seared into their memories during elementary school, the fear of another attack in their minds, the bogey man of terrorism (and specifically OBL) trotted out by their parents and the government, and now that bogey man is gone. That seems like a good enough reason to celebrate.

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